Department of Labor federal obligations in Kentucky

What the Labor-Kentucky join is

Awarding agency 1601 and place-of-performance state KY meet here. $1,250,060,494.21 is the obligation sum on awards that carry both tags. It is not Department of Labor's nationwide budget, not Kentucky's entire federal inflow, and not cash already paid. Workforce-board, mine-safety, and statewide job-training folklore may send a reader here. Those stories are not packet NAICS and not a census of Kentucky workers.

179 award actions sit behind that dollar figure — a short award list beside a billion-dollar obligation total. A few large awards can dominate a dollar total even when the row count looks modest. The join does not rank Kentucky against other states and does not name training boards inside the extract.

Open Department of Labor in Kentucky for the filtered table, Kentucky federal spending for the next hub, Department of Labor for the remaining hub, and All spending ties for other pairs.

179 Labor actions under one Kentucky filter

Dividing $1,250,060,494.21 by 179 yields about $6,983,578.18 per award on average. That average hides contracts, grants, and other instruments. It is not a typical workforce grant. Repeat awards and modifications still add rows; the listed count is not a unique-recipient census. Board names belong on the overlay if they appear as recipients; they are not extra packet dollars.

Workforce-board, mine-safety, and statewide job-training folklore is a coding conversation, not a packet field. Agency names and recipient rows live on the overlay table, not in this narrative's extra columns.

Agency 1601 without a Kentucky overlay is a different total

The agency-wide Department of Labor page aggregates 1601 without requiring KY geography. The Kentucky federal spending page aggregates all agencies with Kentucky place of performance. Only Department of Labor in Kentucky applies both filters, which is why this tie cites 179 awards and $1,250,060,494.21.

Place of performance in Kentucky is a USAspending geography field. Awards can list KY while later work occurs in Ohio or Tennessee. Labor awards coded to those states do not sit in this total even if a vendor's mailroom is in Louisville. This packet does not split Louisville from Lexington or the eastern coal counties.

Obligations, not outlays

An obligation is a legal commitment. An outlay is a payment. $1,250,060,494.21 is the former. This packet has no outlay total, no fiscal-year split, and no de-obligation history. Citing the figure as money already spent in Kentucky over-reads the field.

Award count 179 is a record count, not a payment count. Readers who need transaction-level detail should use the Kentucky-Labor overlay. All spending ties does not hide a blended statewide total under this slug.

What this pair does not prove

A large Labor total in Kentucky does not mean the agency caused Kentucky's employment mix, and it does not connect these obligations to campaign contributions. Correlation between industrial geography and Labor awards is expected; it is not a finding about wages or waste.

Keep $1,250,060,494.21 labeled as agency 1601 obligations with Kentucky place of performance. FEC individual contributions are a different dataset. An agency name that appears near a donor occupation is a coincidence of labeling, not a cash pipeline into USAspending.

How to cite the Kentucky-Labor pair

A clean footnote names awarding agency 1601 (Department of Labor), Kentucky place of performance, $1,250,060,494.21 in obligations, and 179 awards on USAspending.gov. Keep the obligation word. Do not call $1,250,060,494.21 cash outlays. Mean dollars per action remain about $6,983,578.18 if you divide those two facts — a ratio, not a typical workforce grant.

Department of Labor in Kentucky, Kentucky federal spending, Department of Labor, and All spending ties keep the same unit. A later ingest can restate $1,250,060,494.21 without changing the join definition. Rewrite only the sentence whose source moved. Louisville-versus-Lexington folklore is not a metro split in this packet. A short award list is still a record count, including modifications. Unique recipients are not published here. Keep the obligation label in every reuse. Correlation is not causation.

Questions

How much has the Labor Department obligated in Kentucky?

USAspending.gov records $1,250,060,494.21 in obligations for awarding agency 1601 with Kentucky place of performance, covering 179 awards. That is an obligation total, not an outlay total, and not Department of Labor's nationwide budget. Original filings remain on the source sites.

Why are there so few Labor awards in Kentucky relative to the dollars?

The extract lists 179 award actions totaling $1,250,060,494.21. Average obligation per award is about $6,983,578.18, a ratio of two packet facts, not a typical workforce grant. Unique recipients are not published here. Original filings remain on the source sites.

Is this a Louisville-only Labor total?

No. $1,250,060,494.21 and 179 awards are statewide Kentucky place of performance. This packet does not split Louisville from Lexington or the eastern coal counties. A regional cut would be a different extract. Original filings remain on the source sites.

Where is the live Labor-Kentucky table?

Department of Labor in Kentucky is the overlay. Kentucky federal spending shows all agencies in the state. Department of Labor shows agency 1601 without a state filter. All spending ties lists other pairs. Original filings remain on the source sites.